Tuesday, January 31 2017
Dear Morgan Stanley,
This is a terrible list of possible security questions.
How many of these questions are trivial to answer for anyone with even a small social-media presence? How many of the rest are things that people over 30 probably don’t even remember? And seriously, zip code? Date of birth? Last four digits of SSN? To stop someone from trying to break into my brokerage account?!?
How about these, instead?
- Who do you most regret voting for?
- Who would you go to jail for sex with?
- What’s the ugliest car you’ve ever seen?
- What pistol do you keep by the bed?
- What’s the name of the first person you begged for sex?
- Did it work?
- What do you only wear when no one else is around?
- Lid up, lid down, seat down, or “Asian squat toilet”?
- What’s the most ridiculous food fad?
- What do you keep losing?
- What does cilantro taste like to you?
- What was the first thing you had surgically removed?
- Where do you usually masturbate?
- What foreign country would you never visit?
- What historical figure would you travel back in time to kill?
- What’s your favorite smell?
- What part of your body was involved in your first emergency room visit?
- What celebrity would you clone?
- What’s your favorite food you can’t find any more?
- What’s the worst injury you ever caused by accident?
- Who would you lock up and throw away the key?
- What superpower would you abuse the most?
Don’t answer in the comments, or I’ll steal your identity…
Monday, January 30 2017
Cheesecake: ninja & animal ears
“Ninja” was obviously too broad a category, but “ninja cat_ears” wasn’t quite enough. Besides, you can’t have too much Yuki, so I expanded the search to include all animal ears, real and fake.
No red half-rims, so let’s start off with a little Nonsense:
Sunday, January 29 2017
Second impression
I decided to see how much detail I could get with the 20-degree v-bit. This was carved out of the end grain of a generic hardwood 1-inch square dowel.
Update: I shined a flashlight onto the seal to get a better look at it.
Saturday, January 28 2017
First impressions
This is a 2-inch square seal created in Illustrator with my script, imported to VCarve Desktop, and cut from a mounted linoleum block on my Nomad with a 20-degree v-bit. The hardest part about getting a good firm impression on paper is that my stamp pad is too darn small; I’ll have to buy an uninked pad at an office supply shop and load it up with the good pigment.
Also making a good impression is glamour model Meru Tsujimura, who cannot be found at office supply shops…
(Continued on Page 5061)A long time ago…
…in a Republic far, far away:
“The more you lose your grip, Left-wing, the more our systems will slip through your fingers.”
Friday, January 27 2017
Paying tribute
Joan Jett singing the Mary Tyler Moore theme:
In other news, the recent “women’s march” on DC featured a speaker who got 25-to-life for her active role in kidnapping, torturing, raping, and murdering a 62-year-old man.
Which feminism do you prefer?
Thursday, January 26 2017
Finding the perfect woman…
On seeing the contents of the Amazon package that she’d brought over from the other building, the cute glasses-wearing female engineer said:
“You have a cordless circular saw? Cool!”
…and now she’s going off to assemble a CNC router kit…
Wednesday, January 25 2017
Tuesday, January 24 2017
Dangerous words…
I walked into TAP Plastics today. The sign on the door said:
“Scrap sale, 75% off”
I gained 15 pounds of HDPE, for $8. I think I’ll go back tomorrow for a load of acrylic.
[Update: another $20, another 38 pounds of plastic (~21 HDPE, ~17 cast acrylic); I may go back again if I can find someone working there who knows what some of the mystery plastics in the scrap bin are…]
Monday, January 23 2017
Trump Derangement Syndrome
We’re in for a long four+ years. At this point, Trump could spend his entire administration playing Windows Solitaire, and every day there’d be twenty news stories and ten thousand retweets about how he’s keeping the black cards down. Nothing is too trivial or false for them to spin up the hate machine.
And I get it now. It’s simple, really. They hate Trump because he’s not ashamed of America.
He’s not going to continue the international apology tour. He’s not going to scold us for not being Europeans. He likes America, and Americans. And they can’t stand that.
In unrelated news, here’s Shizuka Nakamura doing her impression of the plants in my yard:
(Continued on Page 5050)Sunday, January 22 2017
Cheesecake: Dog Days
Even after an extensive exclusion list, the majority of pictures in the dog_days category on Gelbooru featured heavy petting, so some popular characters are sadly underrepresented.
Red half-rims below the fold, because boobs.
Update: I never knew there was a bonus onsen episode from the third season:
Saturday, January 21 2017
“Sponsored Products Related To This Item”
Pop quiz: while examining a product listing (of the does what I need for now, but isn’t the $1,200 one I’d buy if I were serious type), I noticed a few oddities in the “related items” list. See if you can figure out what I was looking at:
Friday, January 20 2017
Running through my head this morning…
…for some reason.
I had forgotten a lot of the stuff in this video; pretty much all that remained after 30 years was the dancing girls in Flintstones costumes.
Thursday, January 19 2017
Protesting the Inauguration…
True bravery is taking a stand against the oppression that only exists inside your head.
I expect steaming piles of praise for such actions to be published on Friday.
[Update: keep it classy, leftists: “other groups tried to disrupt the day’s events by burning flags, throwing bricks and rioting en masse, leading to injuries and nearly 100 arrests by early afternoon”]
Wednesday, January 18 2017
The answer, of course, is “no”
Found in my spam folder. I haven’t seen one of these in quite a few years, and then only in English (admittedly, some of my Chinese spam may have contained similar offers, but usually those are about infected zip/excel/pdf files).
Subject: Artikelanfrage für dotclue.org
Hallo J Greely,
für meine Kunden suche ich hochwertige Artikelplätze mit thematischem Bezug. Ein konkretes Interesse meines Kunden auf Ihrer Seite zu buchen besteht bereits. So bin ich auf Ihre Seite aufmerksam geworden. Ich würde gern bei Ihnen einen thematisch passenden Artikel buchen.
Ich liefere Ihnen gern einen sehr hochwertigen und professionell geschriebenen Text, welcher von meiner hauptberuflichen Redakteurin aufwendig recherchiert und getextet wird. Alternativ können Sie aber auch gern den Text verfassen. Der Text sollte mindestens 2 Jahre online bleiben.
Bieten Sie so etwas an? Können Sie mir bitte ein Beispiel und Ihren Preis mailen?
Haben Sie evtl. noch weitere Seiten, auf denen so etwas möglich ist?
Ich danke Ihnen für Ihr Feedback.
